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Syllabication of Filipino Words A syllable is one unit of sound that forms the whole or part of a word. In Filipino, a syllable is called pantig and the syllabication of a word is called pagpapantig. When syllabicating words, syllables are separated by a middle dot called the interpunct (·) which is also called the interpoint, middot, or centered dot. Syllable Forms A syllable may be comprised of one vowel alone but a consonant needs a vowel to make a syllable. Syllables with two or more letters can have only one vowel. However, a syllable can have one or more consonants. The Filipino word for vowel is patinig (symbol: P) and the word for consonant is katinig (symbol: K). The table below shows the different forms of Filipino syllables and same examples of Filipino words with those types of syllables.

pronounced. Examples of consonants clusters in Flipino are bl, br, dr, gr, pl, and pr. Some Filipino words have two consecutive consonants (somewhere in the middle of a word) that look like a consonant cluster. Now it would seem that these consonant clusters are not separated into two consonants in different syllables. The consonant cluster would join a vowel or other letters in one syllable. Since there are no specific syllabication rules on words with two-letter consonant clusters in the middle of the word, such words would have to fall under rule 3 above (words with two consecutive consonants). The table below shows the comparison between the syllabication of words with consonant clusters in the UP Filipino dictionary and if rule 3 of the Ortograpiyang Pambansa were followed.

b. Two consecutive consonants in some Filipino words look like a consonant cluster but they are separated into two different syllables and are therefore not considered to be a consonant cluster. In these cases, syllabication rule 3 of the Ortograpiyang Pambansa applies.

c. There are some Filipino words with three consecutive consonants which do not seem to follow the syllabication rule 4 or 5 stated above. For example, if the last two consonants is a consonant cluster, it seems that the first consonant joins the vowel before it in a syllable and the consonant cluster becomes part of the next syllable. The table below shows the comparison between the syllabication of words with consonant clusters in the UP Filipino dictionary and if rule 4 of the Ortograpiyang Pambansa were followed.

If we apply syllabication rule 4 to words with consonant clusters such as those in the table above, the pronunciation of the words would sound a bit awkward. Many Filipinos tend to pronounce these words as they are syllabicated in the UP dictionary. d. Filipino words with other consonant clusters (such as gr and pr) that follow the letters m or n would not fall under rule 5 but would have to fall under rule 4. The two consonants in the consonant cluster would be separated into different syllables. The table below shows the comparison between the syllabication of words with consonant clusters in the UP Filipino dictionary and if rule 4 of the Ortograpiyang Pambansa were followed.